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... o In the South, opposition to the war was strongest in Georgia and North
Carolina, though North Carolina provided the 2nd most troops to the war effort
 Regions with large slaveholding plantations often supported the war
more than poorer back-country regions
o In the North, many opposed the Emancip ...

... Review: Civil War
Many southern whites thought that ____________________ was
necessary for the South’s economy. The Confederacy fought to maintain its
__________________. Some Northerners fought because they hated slavery.
Most Northerners wanted to preserve the ________________. Each side had
certa ...

... War Democrats: supported conflict, wanted to restore the
Union to the way it was before, opposed ending slavery
Peace Democrats: opposed war, reuniting through
negotiations
 Viewed by republicans as treason (anyone against the war)
 Called Copperheads
...

... The Civil War took up where Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington had left off in 1815.
Commanders were willing to sustain high casualties if the objective of a battle was important enough. As
in the eighteenth century, however, the general who realized that he had been outfoxed was duty
bound to dise ...

... Because the Proclamation freed enslaved African Americans only in states at
war with the Union, it did not address slavery in the border states. One reason
the border states were omitted was because Lincoln did not want to endanger
their loyalty. The Proclamation, by its very existence, transformed ...

... • John Brown’s Raid —Brown and his
followers killed 5 proslavery men in Kansas
in 1856. In 1859 he tries to stage an
uprising at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping
to free African American slaves. He is
captured, tried, and executed.
• Republicans opposed the expansion of
slavery westward, and with the ...

... • What was the Seneca Falls Convention concerned with?
– Women’s rights
• How were Republicans and Free Soilers alike?
– Both wanted to stop the SPREAD of slavery
• What was Lincoln primary goal as President?
– Keep the UNION together
...

... one of the bloodiest days in the war.
At the Battle of _________________, General Meade forced Confederate troops to
retreat from Pennsylvania.
After a six-week siege, the city of __________________ surrendered to Grant’s
army.
General Sherman destroyed most of the city of ________________, Georgia, ...

... • Sherman’s 285-mile march
across Georgia
• “We are not only fighting
hostile armies, but a hostile
people, and we must make
old and young, rich and
poor, feel the hand of war,
as well as their organized
armies.”
--Gen. William Tecumseh
Sherman
...

... 1.) another name for the Confederate States of America, made up of the 11 states that
seceded from the Union
2.) a war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country
3.) something that increases strength with additional support
4.) an order issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, ...

... Eleven southern states left the Union and formed the
Confederacy. Four border states stayed in the Union. The
North wanted to keep the Union together. They planned to
stop the Confederacy from trading with other nations. They
would attack the South from the East and West at the same
time. The North ...

... improved it by, for instance, building a house on it. The act helped make land accessible to hundreds of
thousands of westward‐moving settlers, but many people also found disappointment when their land
was infertile or they saw speculators grabbing up the best land. (479)
Laird rams (1863)
Two w ...

Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War, the Union was the term used to refer to the United States of America, and specifically to the national government and the 20 free states and five border slave states which supported it. The Union was opposed by 11 southern states that formed the Confederate States of America, or ""the Confederacy"".All the Union states provided soldiers for the U.S. Army; the border areas also sent large numbers of soldiers to the Confederacy. The Border states played a major role as a supply base for the Union invasion of the Confederacy. The Northeast provided the industrial resources for a mechanized war producing large quantities of munitions and supplies, as well as financing for the war. The Midwest provided soldiers, food and horses, as well as financial support and training camps. Army hospitals were set up across the Union. Most states had Republican governors who energetically supported the war effort and suppressed anti-war subversion in 1863–64. The Democratic Party strongly supported the war in 1861 but was split by 1862 between the War Democrats and the anti-war element led by the ""Copperheads"". The Democrats made major electoral gains in 1862 in state elections, most notably in New York. They lost ground in 1863, especially in Ohio. In 1864 the Republicans campaigned under the Union Party banner, which attracted many War Democrats and soldiers and scored a landslide victory for Lincoln and his entire ticket.The war years were quite prosperous except where serious fighting and guerrilla warfare took place along the southern border. Prosperity was stimulated by heavy government spending and the creation of an entirely new national banking system. The Union states invested a great deal of money and effort in organizing psychological and social support for soldiers' wives, widows and orphans, and for the soldiers themselves. Most soldiers were volunteers, although after 1862 many volunteered to escape the draft and to take advantage of generous cash bounties on offer from states and localities. Draft resistance was notable in some larger cities, especially New York City with its massive anti-draft riots of 1863 and in some remote districts such as the coal mining areas of Pennsylvania.